Ghulam Nadri

I specialize in the history of South Asia (17th-19th centuries) and study its society and economy in the larger framework of the Indian Ocean world and global history. Besides my book, Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: The Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), I have published several research papers and book reviews in different journals, books, and proceedings. My main research interests include merchant communities, commodities (indigo, sugar, and textiles), maritime labour and labour market, and culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean world. Currently, I am working on my next book ‘The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1920’. This project explores the history of commercial indigo as a global commodity and investigates the trajectory of its production and trade from the perspectives of India’s political economy, colonialism, and globalization.

Publications

Books:

Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: the Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2009).